Dolissa Medina is the creator of more than a dozen short films. Over the past 15 years she has screened her work at festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco International Film Festival, MIX New York, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Int’l Short Film Festival Oberhausen. She has also exhibited at museums and galleries in Toronto, Mexico City, New York and Oakland, as well as at site-specific outdoor venues such as the side of fire station for San Francisco’s 1906 Earthquake Centennial. Medina is interested in the mythic dimensions of history and explores this theme in her found footage films about cities and place. A former Fulbright Scholar, she holds a B.A. in journalism from San Francisco State University and an MFA in Visual Arts from UC-San Diego. She lives in Germany.